Re: Any objection to adding a unicode footnote style? (encoding fixed)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Leo <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 13:09:59 +0800
> 
> > Are we willing to bet that the default font is a Unicode font for most
> > users?  If not, perhaps at least some caveat in the doc string is in
> > order.
> 
> How about adding something like this to the doc-string:
> 
> diff --git a/lisp/mail/footnote.el b/lisp/mail/footnote.el
> index dc967ec8..1a60a333 100644
> --- a/lisp/mail/footnote.el
> +++ b/lisp/mail/footnote.el
> @@ -337,6 +337,10 @@ (defcustom footnote-style 'numeric
>  unicode == ¹, ², ³, ...
>  See also variables `footnote-start-tag' and `footnote-end-tag'.
>  
> +NB: some characters in the latin and unicode style may not be
> +shown properly if the default font does not contain those
> +characters.

Something like that, although I would suggest to mention only Unicode,
as Latin characters can be assumed to be universally available.  Also,
I think we use "Note", not "NB".